Why is the stock market just so volatile right now?

Well, we also went through a long period where it wasn't volatile in recent months after the S&P 500 bottom in late March.

So a lot of the big prime catalyst systems a lot of people know was the midterm elections.

A lot of it had really been building because you had record earnings growth in the first half of the year.

A lot of that was tied to the AI trade.

Of course, when you think of high flyers like SanDisk and Micron Technology, those were the two best performers first half of the year.

But then you also have the Federal Reserve beginning to raise rates in September.

And how does it actually work?